KOTA BARU: A teacher at a school near here has been remanded for seven days to assist in the investigation into a case of physical sexual assault on a 12-year-old male student, between March and August this year.
Magistrate Rais Imran Hamid today granted the application by the police to remand the 49-year-old man until Saturday to facilitate investigations into the case under Section 14 (d) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017.
The teacher is believed to have sexually assaulted the boy at a school during the school session, as well as in a car in the area of a shopping centre here, and at a resort near Pantai Cahaya Bulan.
Meanwhile, Tumpat district police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Khairi Shafie, when contacted, confirmed that he had received a report on the case. — BERNAMA